Waiters/Waitresses/Baristas Share Their Unexpected Overheards

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mattstaff
Jun 20, 2021 9:00 PM EDT

Waiters, waitresses, and baristas are sharing their unexpected overheards that they've experienced while working on the job. Nothing quite like just trying to muddle through your work day, while you're also playing third party to what could be the ending of a relationship, or some other kind of emotional blowup between a couple people eating a meal. 

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    Text - Psycho5554 • 13h I was clearing some tables after a wedding, overheard the bride talking to the grooms mother. Trying to justify having cheated on the groom the night before (which seriously seems to happen way too often for both genders, wtf) The part that made it really bad is she kept trashing her now husband and his mothers trying to be as sweet as possible telling her its understandable and she stressed and all that, telling her to give it time. Part of me respects her calmness but s
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    Text - SpacyCats • 7h Not quite the same, but was selling a guy some concession items (popcorn, drink candy) and he looks me dead in the eyes as his wife and kids walks away and says: "We're getting a divorce and this is our last night out together. This is probably the last time l'll see my kids" I had no idea what to even say.
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    Text - SirWallacellofReddit • 12h Not those jobs but I once overheard the following conversation from some girls standing in line in front of me 1: why is the sky blue 2: i think it's cause there's water in the air 1: oh, that actually makes a lot of sense... But ehn why is it black at night? 2: cause there's all the carbon and stuff there too that is easier to see in the dark. I still cannot believe there are people this dumb in the world.
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    Text - Limp_Distribution • 17h Not any of those jobs but a chauffeur and I overheard this wonderful line. "We can get the executives another $100 million but we'll have to throw the employees under a bus." Almost stopped the car right then but had rent to pay.
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    Text - 1stviolinfangirl • 14h I work at a "tell-n-dine" diner at my city, it's where you call in the food and I bring it out to you. Anyway. The phones are hooked up so that we can only take one call at a time. If someone doesn't put up their phone completely, it won't let us take someone else's order. So these people didn't put up they're phone properly and weren't fixing it. Before I went out to fix it for them, my coworker trying to connect to them through the line gets a funny look on her fa
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    Text - blizzaga1988 · 10h I once worked in a well known affluent neighbourhood in my city and had lots of asshole customers, but I just remember one time this young woman was with her parents, and she was clearly in her first year of college, because she was begging them to allow her to lighten her course load by dropping just one course. The parents refused, saying how they're paying for it, and literally telling her they'd be ashamed to tell anyone she did this. It was pretty revolting. I also
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    Text - jacobr1020 • 12h 3 1 Award I was eating at a restaurant one day and a boyfriend proposed to his girlfriend. It was very sweet, not attention-seeking at all, and seemed very genuine. She started crying and said yes. He grinned and said "April Fool!" She. Was. PISSED!
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    Text - NotJasper321 • 6h I am a waiter and whilst polishing glasses I overheard two business men talking, they were seated right next to the bar area where I was standing. Lets call them B1 and B2. B1: I think that my wife is cheating on me. B2: What makes you think that. B1: Kevin.
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    Text - Font - DaAveragePoTaTo • 2h Not a waiter but a picolo (waiter assistent), once heard a table saying how service were, and how they were gonna tip poorly. We are one of the best restaurants in my country (israel), and no one else had any complaints about the food/service that day. We actually had amazing tips that day (everyone got 1.5 times what we usually get) the food and
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    Text - Font - flotus_brews • 1h Regular A is married to Regular B. They come in a lot together, but also come in separately with friends quite often. One day I overhear Regular A confessing to a friend that she wants to leave her husband. She's miserable about it because there's no huge event that took place, she's just bored and there's no spark left, so she wants a fresh start. I'm shocked because they always seem so happy together, but of course, you never know what goes on behind closed door
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